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Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s. Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution.
From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900′s. View of the monastery from Svetlitsa Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Trans-Siberian Railway metal truss bridge on stone piers, over the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region; ca. 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Analysis & Opinion. But does it float. Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a...
Going West. The best films of the '00s. BBC - Earth News - Baby snow leopard filmed in wild mountains of Bhutan. Face to face with a baby snow leopard A wild baby snow leopard has been caught on camera.
Filmed over 5,000m up in the highlands of Bhutan in the Himalayas, the baby leopard investigates a camera trap set by a BBC Natural history film crew. The young snow leopard walks right up to the camera lens, sniffing it before off-screen walking into the bleak, rocky snow swept landscape. Snow leopards are the highest living of all big cats, and are among the most rare and elusive of all animals. "No wonder hardly anyone sees snow leopards, they are just so well camouflaged. He believes the cub's mother had left it near or in front of the camera trap while she went off hunting. "It is one of the most exquisite looking animals I have ever seen. " Mr Buchanan, who on the same expedition also filmed tigers are living at a higher altitude than any others, has filmed wild cats worldwide for more than 10 years.
That makes the snow leopard and tiger "sister species", say experts. Mohammed Massoud >Morsi's< blog. My father woke me up five in the morning, it was early, but it didn’t matter; I hadn’t slept well. I had time for a quick cup of tea and a slice of rye bread and then we were off to the airport. Mum got up to wish me a good trip, I hugged her as deeply and warmly as I could, sleepy she smiled and told me to stay safe.
I went down the two flights of stairs and out into the cold street where my father waited impatiently in the car. We took the freeway; it was almost empty. The night before I had tried to tell him that there was no need to get up so early but it was all in vain, off course. As a kid, the drive to the airport, waiting for the plane, taking off, was as an exciting part of the journey as the ride itself. The Lively Morgue. Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players. Prague Tower - amazingly beautiful.